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An epic debut novel about a young man coming to conditions with his life along the way and aftermath of earning his first film - from critically acclaimed brief story copy writer Owen Ruler - for listeners of Joshua Ferris, Sam Lipsyte, and Chad Harbach. Filmmaker Sam Dolan has a hard relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan - a boisterous, opinionated, lying down lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam's dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only fault, in Sam's sight, was her eternal passion for his daddy. Also contained in the ensemble of indelible people: a precocious, frequently violent half-sister; a conspiracy-theorist second partner; an Internet-famous roommate; a family friend and company who can't stop broadening his house; a happy-go-lucky college lover and her man, a retired Yankees catcher; the morose developer of a genuine criminal offense show; and a slouching indie film story. Not forgetting a tragic sex monster. Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning account of the Dolan family's friends, addicts, and adversaries, Two times Feature is about enabling go of everything - regret, resentment, ambition, dignity, moving pictures, the lifeless - and taking it again from the most notable. Combining propulsive storytelling and mordant wit against the setting of indie filmmaking, Two times Feature brims with a deep knowledge of the trials of ambition and artwork, of relationships and life, and of our makes an attempt to survive everything.
